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St. Vincent’s Healthcare Group Limited - Annual Review 2007 Department - Medicine Department Of Medical Oncology 2007 was a highly successful year in the academic, clinical and educational activities of the Medical Oncology department in St. Vincent’s University Hospital. The year saw a major and welcome re-development of the inpatient facility in St. Anne’s Ward. The everincreasing move of Oncology from the outpatient to the ambulatory setting continued with increasing numbers of patients treated in our day centre. On the personnel front, Dr. Dimitrios Tryfonopoulos took up duties as Consultant Medical Oncologist and at the end of 2007 was appointed to the new Health Research Board Investigator/Consultant post in the unit. We wish Dr Tryfonopoulos, who was a medical oncologist on the staff of the St. Savas Cancer Centre in Athens, one of Europe’s leading cancer centres, every success for a happy and productive time here in Dublin. Another major transition in the unit was the retirement of Sr Patricia Goodwillie after many years of sterling service as the Clinical Nurse manager of St. Anne’s Ward. We wish Sr. Goodwillie all the best for many years of a healthy and happy retirement. The clinical research team underwent further development. Susan Cairney and Mary Doyle joined the unit as research assistants and Ms Trish Carroll has joined as administrative assistant to the Research Department. Professor Crown lectured extensively during 2007. In addition, he presented the results of the Lapatinib/ Capecitabine randomised trial at the Annual Conference of Clinical Oncology in Barcelona. Professor Crown was awarded a Health Research Board Clinician Scientist award. This scheme is designed to free up academically focused consultants from full time patient care work, to facilitate the development of research programmes. Professor Crown will take up these duties in January, 2008. Publications Martinez V, Kennedy S, Doolan P, Gammell P, Joyce H, Kenny E, Prakash Mehta J, Ryan E, O'connor R, Crown J, Clynes M, O'Driscoll L. Drug metabolism-related genes as potential biomarkers: analysis of expression in normal and tumour breast tissue. Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2007 Sep 27; Doolan P, Clynes M, Kennedy S, Mehta JP, Crown J, O'driscoll L. Prevalence and prognostic and predictive relevance of PRAME in breast cancer. Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2007 Jul 12; O'Donovan N, Crown J. EGFR and HER-2 antagonists in breast cancer. Anticancer Res. 2007 May-Jun;27(3A):1285-94. Review. Kelleher FC, McKenna M, Collins C, Brady G, Collins I, Crown J. Bisphosphonate induced osteonecrosis of the jaws: unravelling uncertainty in disease causality. Acta Oncol. 2007;46(5):702-4. Kelleher FC, McKenna M, Collins CD, Crown JP. A potential anatomic cause of mandibular osteonecrosis in patients receiving bisphosphonate treatment. Mayo Clin Proc. 2007 Jan;82(1):134; author reply 134-5. Return to Contents 194
Lios Aoibhinn Cancer Support Centre 2007 was a year of challenge, innovation and development for Lios Aoibhinn Cancer Support Centre. Much was achieved and targets were met. However more work is required to continue the development of Lios Aoibhinn Cancer Support Centre. Solid foundations based on the highest standards are in place upon which future services can be developed. Service Activity 2007 was a time of movement within the Cancer Support Centre. In January we welcomed Paul D’Alton as Psychologist to the Oncology service. We bade farewell to Ann Marie McGrath, Complementary Touch Therapist at the end of September and wish her well with her continuing education and degree programme in Complementary Therapies . In December we said goodbye to Art Therapist, Wendy Marlatt. Wendy had facilitated 8 week courses in Creative Arts Therapies since the Centre opened in June 2004. Mary Hennigan, Administrative Assistant relocated to the hospital in March and in April we welcomed Caroline Livingstone in her place. Caroline had previously worked in the Project office. We welcomed 3 new volunteers. Stephen Dollard in May and Fiona Hedigan and Anne Douglas in October. We now have 9 volunteers who provide an invaluable “meet and greet” service to people who use Lios Aoibhinn. 551 people (including 358 new clients) used the service on 4595 occasions in the first 3 years of service (2005 – 2007). This represents a steady increase in both the number of clients registering and attending and service activity. Two new courses were developed and facilitated in 2007: Men and Prostate Cancer: Keeping the Focus and Mindfullness Based Cognitive Therapy. Such was the response that these courses will now continue to be offered as part of the centre’s programme of services. Challenges At year end the challenge is to relocate the Centre. This has been necessitated by the planned construction of the new St. Vincent’s Private Hospital on the grounds of St. Anthony’s. Lios Aoibhinn Cancer Support Centre was set up in Herbert House in St. Anthony’s in 2004 and since then there has been a steady increase in the numbers of people using the centre. Client’s experiences tell us that as well as being a space to help them cope with and make sense of what is happening to them, the work of Lios Aoibhinn goes beyond that, beyond their experience of just being a “cancer patient”. So while the past four years have been busy and challenging they have also been very worthwhile and have afforded us the opportunity of setting up and developing a truly credible service which all of us will be working hard to transfer to our new abode. The recent announcement that St. Vincent’s University Hospital has been designated one of the cancer treatment centres of excellence confirms the vision and commitment by St. Vincent’s Healthcare Group to specialist cancer care. However this adds to the urgent need to commit to the parallel development of Lios Aoibhinn Cancer Support Centre in line with the development of other oncology services in the hospital to take account of increased activity. Return to Contents 195
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